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News 10 March 2009 Korean teacher leader on hunger strike
The President of the Korean Teachers and Education Workers’ Union KTU (Jeon-Gyo-Jo) has been on hunger strike since 23 February to protest the recent dismissal of a number of KTU members for not cooperating in carrying out standardized tests which the government introduced last autumn. To publicize his hunger strike,...
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News 17 February 2009 Zimbabwe: Teachers hope an end to the education crisis is near
Hopes were raised when Zimbabwe’s new Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, promised that all civil servants, including teachers, would be paid in foreign currency by the end of February.
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News 23 January 2009 Zimbabwean teachers received Z$29 trillion pay this month
Both EI member organisations in Zimbabwe denounce the latest salary paid to teachers by the government. On 21 January, the teacher unions told reporters that their members were paid an average of Z$29 trillion as salary for January 2009. This amount is less than US$10.
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News 20 January 2009 South Korean teachers fired over standardised testing
Seven primary and middle school teachers in the South Korean capital Seoul have been fired for giving students and parents a choice about whether to take a national standardised test.
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16 January 2009 Italians resist dismantling of public education
Teachers, parents and students across Italy are rallying in defense of quality public education and to protest a devastating package of reforms proposed the government of Silvio Berlusconi. Union leaders say it would turn back the clock thirty years in schools.
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News 3 December 2008 Macedonia: Teachers achieve new collective agreement, strike is over
Leaders of the Trade Union of Employees in Education, Science and Culture (SONK) and representatives of the Macedonian education authorities reached an accord 3 December, bringing to an end the strike which had closed elementary and secondary schools since 24 November.
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News 2 December 2008 Macedonia: Teachers hopeful for resumption of negotiations
Teachers are more optimistic after an announcement by Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski condemning the pressure exerted on teacher union members, and urging education officials and union leaders to get back to the negotiating table and come to a mutually agreeable solution to the current strike.
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News 25 November 2008 Macedonian teachers strike to back collective bargaining rights
Members of the Autonomous Trade Union of Education, Science and Culture of the Republic of Macedonia (SONK) went on strike 24 November after the government reneged on its earlier commitments in collective agreements for both elementary and secondary education.
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News 17 October 2008 EI supports its Italian member organisations' call against dismantling of education
Education International its EU organisation, the European Trade Union Committee for Education (ETUCE), strongly support the call by their Italian member organisations - the Federazione Lavoratori della Connoscenza (FLC-CGIL), the CISL-Scuola and the UIL-Scuola for action against the plans by the government to dramatically downsize the education sector.
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News 10 October 2008 EI urges Somalia to make schools safe sanctuaries
With the country in turmoil, the public education system in a state of collapse, and teachers under attack, Education International is deeply concerned that Somali teachers and students are suffering profound violations of their rights on a daily basis.
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News 6 October 2008 Teachers matter more than ever!
Education, schools and children will ultimately pay the highest price as the global financial crisis hits communities everywhere, EI Vice-President Patrick Gonthier warned participants in a Round Table held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 3 October to commemorate World Teachers’ Day 2008.
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News 6 October 2008 Central and Eastern Europe: Teachers united for quality education
Teachers from across Central and Eastern Europe are reaching out to colleagues facing difficult circumstances in Georgia, Montenegro and Turkey. Representatives of 26 organisations from 17 countries met in Zagreb, Croatia, from 2-4 October.
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News 3 October 2008 World Teachers’ Day 2008: Teachers matter!
Governments the world over must address the dramatic shortage of qualified teachers if they are to meet the social and economic challenges of the knowledge society, according to Education International, the global union federation representing 30 million teachers around the world.
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News 26 September 2008 Dramatic increase in attacks on teachers
The world has seen a dramatic and disturbing increase in attacks against teachers over the past three years, according to the author of a global study commissioned by UNESCO. Journalist and researcher Brendan O’Malley presented his findings to members of the Executive Board of Education International, meeting this week in...
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Research A comparative study of teachers’ pay in Europe
Béla Galgóczi and Vera Glassner
17 September 2008A comparative study of teachers’ pay in EuropeThis report presents the findings of a study on teachers’ pay in Europe, commissioned by EI/ ETUCE/, and conducted by the European Trade Union Institute’s research department in the summer of 2008.
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News 12 September 2008 Suriname: teachers achieve substantial wage increases
Following difficult months of conflicts and long strikes, the teacher unions in Suriname have won substantial wage increases from the government, as well as a collective agreement which addresses discrepancies between teachers' working conditions.
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News 10 September 2008 Indonesia: Teachers' pay increased by 15%
Teachers in Indonesia are celebrating the success of their long legal and political struggle to compel their government to live up to the Constitutional requirement to dedicate 20 percent of the national budget to education. The PGRI, EI’s affiliate, took the case for increasing education funding to the Constitutional Court...
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News 10 September 2008 Moldova: review of salary urgently needed
In support of its member organisation the Education and Science Trade Union (ESTU), EI has requested the education minister of Moldova, Larisa Savga, to open a dialogue with the teacher union to review teachers' salary.
Moldova: review of salary urgently needed